Talk:Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse

Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse is currently a World history good article nominee. Nominated by Departure– (talk) at 02:48, 19 July 2025 (UTC) An editor has placed this article on hold to allow improvements to be made to satisfy the good article criteria. Recommendations have been left on the review page, and editors have seven days to address these issues. Improvements made in this period will influence the reviewer's decision whether or not to list the article as a good article. Short description: 2021 tornado strike at an Amazon warehouse

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A fact from Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 July 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that after a tornado strike at a St. Louis-area Amazon warehouse killed six workers, the rebuilt warehouse still had no proper storm shelter? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse.

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by History6042 talk 18:36, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• ... that after a tornado strike at a St. Louis-area Amazon warehouse killed six workers, the rebuilt warehouse still had no proper storm shelter?

• Source: St. Louis Public Radio

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Delivery After Raid

Created by Departure– (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Departure– (talk) 02:38, 27 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image eligibility:

• Freely licensed: - non-free use rationale
• Used in article:
• Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: MumphingSquirrel (talk) 19:58, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Departure– (talk · contribs) 02:48, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: EF5 (talk · contribs) 14:21, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Starting review sometime today. ^EF⁵ 14:21, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for the delay; school is starting back up this Thursday and I can continue the review then. For now I'm without a computer. ^EF⁵ 23:51, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@EF5: Thanks for doing this review. I'm going to expand the article to a rough completion before I finish this GA (maybe 2 or 3 days?). I have not given up on it. I've just been awfully demotivated from editing recently (no specific reason), which is why I haven't done much here or elsewhere in that time. Departure– (talk) 23:43, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

I'm going to try to review this without using one of those review templates, if you don't mind.

Images

• For File:Response to the Edwardsville warehouse tornado.png, is an NFF truly needed? We already have a free image of the warehouse following the tornado, so I'm not sure if Illustrate the response and immediate aftermath of the collapse would hold up as an NFF rationale. You could, however, use an NFF of the tornado itself.

• There is significant coverage of the response itself, in addition to the damage the tornado caused (just like Belvidere). If you'd prefer the photo to be further down, tell me. Departure– (talk) 03:28, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I know, but there is already an image of the damage itself. — ^EF⁵ 12:59, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Prose

• 8 p.m. Friday through and 3 a.m. Saturday Not a huge deal, but I'd suggest adding the ":00"s afterwards, given that's how other times are formatted in the article.
• Link Tornado at the first mention in the lead.
• that oversees > that oversaw, given this event happened in the past and was largely destroyed.

• A big part of this story (sadly) is that the same darn warehouse reopened without much fanfare, so I don't think that's necessary. Departure– (talk) 03:17, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Spotcheck of random sources:

• [2] - Does verify info cited, but this is an WP:SPS. Is there any better source you could find?
• [9] - Verifies info used to cite.
• [13] - Does verify, but says nothing about the tornado being "strong" (which has a specific usage in tornado terminology)
• [17] - Does verify info.
• [30] - Does verify info.
• For all the IEM references, could you set the publisher to Iowa State University?
• Buisness Insider (ref 31) is marked as "marginally reliable" at WP:RSP.
• Delink Capitol News Illinois in ref 37, as no article exists.